St. Landry democrat., 1887-11-26

Commissioner Sparks, of the general land
Office, has called upon President Cleveland
ant rendered his resignation. Secretary
Lamar said in New York that no successor
to Sparks had yet been chosen.
Judge z. w Bunce reached the age Of 100
recently, and was rendered a reception by the
leading citizens of Port Huron, Mich. He
was born in Hartford, Conn. His family
We're the owners of the farm on which stood
the famous Charter Oak. Judge Bunce was
member of the territorial Legislature from
1S2l to 1924 and Judge of the Circuit Court
from 1884 to 1919. His mind is clear and
active, and his muscles as strong taud firm
as those of most men of sixty years. Judge
Bunce was not at any time total abstainer,
and still smokes pipe.
At the 10th annual banquet Of the New
York Chamber of Commerce distinguished
assemblage Of business and public men sur
rounded the tables The principal speakers
were Secretary Lamar and Joseph Chamber
lain, the British fisheries commissioner.
Letters were read from President Cleveland
and Governor Hill.
At a meeting of the national pension COM
III New York, Adiutant General Wagner, of
Philadelphia, presided. The committee
outlined pension measure to be presented
TO Congress at the next session, including
disability bill, equalization Of disabilities
ana pensions for veterans widows and Sc
Nerely MANNED veterans.
\ committee of the Union Veterans called
uion President Cleveland recently and re-
qHested that veterans i'll the public service
as clerks shall not be compelled to enter into
competitive examinations to retain their
POSITIONS, and that, where they voluntarily
enter examinations for promotion, prefer
ence be given them The President prom
lsed to consider the matter.
Representatives of the leading railroads
Of the East met IN New York recently to or
ganize for the purpose of making some gen
erai move in reference to the heating Of cars
by steam. A committee was appointed to
take the necessary steps for furtherlng the
scheme.
The general passenger committee of the
trunk lines met in New York recently and
discussed among other things the subject of
the transportation of the Italian Immigrants
who come from the cholera-inlcctel ports
on the Mediterranean. The committee de-
termlred to cooperate in every way III their
power with the local authorities Of all cities
interested in any regulations they might
make on the subject
1t is stated that the Northern Pacific rail
road has also decided to shorten Is time be-
tween st. Paul and Portland. The changes
will be made soon, when a fast train viii be
put on. making the west-bOund trip between
the two cities in three days and three hours,
a shortening of twenty-one hours. The east
bound trip will be shortened seventeen hours.
kilograms from Beaufort and Port ROYAL
say that a syndicate of Northern and En-
glish capitalists has bought the interest of d.
A. Appleton in the city of Port ROYAL and
vicinity, and will at once build haIf-miie
docks and open direct railroad communica-
ton with Birmingham, Ala.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Valley railroad has been held in Staun-
ton, Va. The net earnings we're $4,000.
President Spencer and the old board of di-
rectOrs were reelected.
A telegram from Chicago says Wells.
Fargo & Co. have completed a contract with
the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company, which covers the express business
on all the lines operated or controlled by the
Santa Fe system, about 1000 miles in all.
The assignee of A. S. Hatch & Co., of New
York, has been busy preparing statement
of the firms affairs. He judges that the
liabilities will not reach $500, 900, and that
the assets would about cover them.
A telegram from Huntingdon, Pa, says
that mechanics lien for s9l 900, entered
by James P. Witherow, of Pittsburg, has
Just been placed on record in Bedford county
against Robert Hare Powelrs Sons & Co.
This sum represents Witherows claim
against the Powells for the new furnace
just completed at Saxton.
The comptroller of the currency has ap-
pointed receiver for the Fifth National
Bank of St. Louis, which suspended on the
5th inst.
The richest gold mine ever known is re-
ported to have been discovered about ten
miles from Prescott, Ariz. The ore is said
to average 81 900 per ton, and thousands of
tons are in sight.
At meeting of the congregation of Ply
mouth Church, in Brooklyn, it was resolved,
with only one dissenting voice, to call Rev. |
Charles A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, Eng
land to the pastorate to succeed Henry Ward
Beecher.
A telegram from Newark, N. j., says one
of the boilers in Heller Bros blast furnaces
at Woodside. on the line of the Greenwood
Lake railroad, exploded killing Thos.
Proud, aged sixty years, and injuring We'll
lington Cord. Albert Buckman and John |
Bernard. Fire followed the explosion and
the building, causing a loss of
$780, 900. The boiler had recently been in
spected and pronounced sound
A boiler in the Belleville steel works in
Paterson, N. j., exploded recently. Two
men were badly shaken up but not danger |
ously hurt. The building caught fire and
loss of $4,000 resulted.
A freight engine ON the New York Central
railroad exploded near Palatine bridge, New
York. Fireman Steingraves was thrown
twenty-five feet into the air and killed, and
Engineer Mitchell was dangerously injured.
Thomas J. Bowen, fifty years of age,
well-known contractor, of Wilmington, was